It was not that long ago that those who believe (on faith, not scientific fact) that there is no global warming, celebrated the snowfall in the Eastern U.S. as though it showed that global warming was not happening. Prior posts have reviewed a number...

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School
This is the third and final blog that discusses some of the most notable recent legal developments in the field of intellectual property law and green technology. In two prior...

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the federal common law claim of public nuisance for global warming by greenhouse gases by the Alaskan Village of Kivalina was displaced by the Clean Air Act and Environmental Protection...

By Malcolm Dowden
Germany and Mexico are co-hosting a high-level conference this week in Bonn, Germany on the way towards COP16. More than 40 countries are represented at the Ministerial level. Yvo de Boer, the outgoing UNFCCC Executive Secretary, delivered...

By Carol E. Dinkins and Eric Groten, Partners, Vinson & Elkins; General Editor Bradley M. Marten
In the absence of federal climate change legislation, questions about whether and how greenhouse gases may be regulated under the Clean Air Act (CAA...

Michael Cohen, Vice President, Government Affairs, Renaissance Reinsurance, was on the faculty of the Reinsurance Outlook 2010 seminar produced earlier this year by HB Litigation Conferences. During a session on climate change, Cohen shared his insights...

The Amazon has long been conceived of as a CO2 sink because of its mass of vegetation. Researchers are now concerned that drought and deforestation may make it a net emitter.
Because of regular measurements of about 100,000 trees, researchers estimate...

By Robert F. Lawrence, Partner, and Dustin Till, Associate, Marten Law
Cap and trade is a market-based framework under which aggregate emissions are capped and regulated businesses must obtain (through government allocations, auctions, or secondary...

Last month, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne hosted an official COP21 side event: Social Dynamics and Climate Change . The conference was commissioned by the French government to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the social...

By Robert A. Wyman, Jr. and Michael G. Romey; General Editor Bradley M. Marten
Numerous lawsuits have been filed to address climate change, including those based in tort for injuries to persons and property caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions....

By Meredith Wilensky, CCCCL Associate Director & Fellow
The United States is currently negotiating the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade and investment agreement, with 11 other Pacific Rim countries. From the outset...

By Dustin Till, Associate, Marten Law Group PLLC
"The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently dealt another blow to advocacy groups attempting to compel federal action on climate change via common law causes of actions. In Alec...

By Dianne Saxe, Ontario Environmental Lawyer
The Canadian federal government does not like to talk about climate change, so the Insurance Bureau of Canada has released a hard hitting report on the damage that climate change is already causing in Canada...

By Kathy G. Beckett and David M. Flannery, Members, Jackson Kelly PLLC; General Editor Bradley M. Marten
As the United States continues to debate the climate change issue, attention is being focused on the burning of fossil-fuels for power generation...

By Mark Beaufoy and Laura Schuijers
July 1 marked the first day of the first compliance year under Australia's carbon pricing mechanism (CPM). Entities liable under the CPM will need to record and report their covered greenhouse gas emissions...

Lew Rothstein, Ph.D., principal scientist with WeatherPredict Consulting was on the faculty of “Reinsurance Outlook 2010,” a seminar produced earlier this year by HB Litigation Conferences. During a session on climate change, Rothstein talked...

By Julia Dobtsis, JD Candidate, 2012, Cornell Law School
On October 20, 2011, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced the adoption its long awaited Air Resources Board Emissions Trading Program. The state-administered program is the...

By Patrick Woolsey, Columbia Law School, Center for Climate Change Law, Intern
Federal agencies have begun to incorporate consideration of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions into the environmental impact statements (EISs) which they are required...

By Russell Prugh and Adam Orford, Associates, Marten Law PLLC
In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Russell Prugh and Adam Orford of Marten Law PLLC review the oral arguments made before the U.S. Supreme Court on January 9, 2012 in Sackett v. EPA . This...

By Russell Prugh , Associate, Marten Law PLLC
“Congressional legislators in both houses have recently proposed bills to delay or block EPA from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and other environmental laws. A...

By Robert F. Lawrence, Dustin Till and Svend Brandt-Erichsen, Matren Law PLLC
Excerpt: California's greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program is due to be finalized within a few weeks, over widespread opposition and concern about its effects on...

On this edition, Jeffrey A. Thaler of Bernstein Shur in Portland, Me. and Dustin T. Till of Marten Law in Portland, Ore. discuss the National Environmental Policy Act and steps for conducting an environmental review. They explain how climate change fits...

By Delmar R. Ehrich, Diana Young Morrissey, and Daniel J. Herber; General Editor Bradley M. Marten
The insurance industry is facing enormous challenges in light of the dramatic growth in claims related to climate change. This rise in claims will surely...

By David W. Tundermann; General Editor Bradley M. Marten
States across the country have enacted or are considering a broad range of actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including comprehensive GHG reduction plans, voluntary and mandatory...